--------
[verse]
'git-rev-list' [ \--max-count=number ]
+ [ \--skip=number ]
[ \--max-age=timestamp ]
[ \--min-age=timestamp ]
[ \--sparse ]
[ \--no-merges ]
[ \--remove-empty ]
+ [ \--full-history ]
[ \--not ]
[ \--all ]
[ \--stdin ]
[ \--topo-order ]
[ \--parents ]
+ [ \--timestamp ]
+ [ \--left-right ]
+ [ \--cherry-pick ]
+ [ \--encoding[=<encoding>] ]
[ \--(author|committer|grep)=<pattern> ]
+ [ \--regexp-ignore-case | \-i ]
+ [ \--extended-regexp | \-E ]
+ [ \--date={local|relative|default|iso|rfc|short} ]
[ [\--objects | \--objects-edge] [ \--unpacked ] ]
[ \--pretty | \--header ]
[ \--bisect ]
+ [ \--bisect-vars ]
[ \--merge ]
+ [ \--reverse ]
+ [ \--walk-reflogs ]
+ [ \--no-walk ] [ \--do-walk ]
<commit>... [ \-- <paths>... ]
DESCRIPTION
more specialized family of commit log tools: gitlink:git-log[1],
gitlink:git-show[1], and gitlink:git-whatchanged[1]
---pretty[='<format>']::
-
- Pretty print the contents of the commit logs in a given format,
- where '<format>' can be one of 'raw', 'medium', 'short', 'full',
- and 'oneline'. When left out the format default to 'medium'.
+include::pretty-options.txt[]
--relative-date::
- Show dates relative to the current time, e.g. "2 hours ago".
+ Synonym for `--date=relative`.
+
+--date={relative,local,default,iso,rfc}::
+
Only takes effect for dates shown in human-readable format, such
as when using "--pretty".
++
+`--date=relative` shows dates relative to the current time,
+e.g. "2 hours ago".
++
+`--date=local` shows timestamps in user's local timezone.
++
+`--date=iso` (or `--date=iso8601`) shows timestamps in ISO 8601 format.
++
+`--date=rfc` (or `--date=rfc2822`) shows timestamps in RFC 2822
+format, often found in E-mail messages.
++
+`--date=short` shows only date but not time, in `YYYY-MM-DD` format.
++
+`--date=default` shows timestamps in the original timezone
+(either committer's or author's).
--header::
Print the parents of the commit.
+--timestamp::
+ Print the raw commit timestamp.
+
+--left-right::
+
+ Mark which side of a symmetric diff a commit is reachable from.
+ Commits from the left side are prefixed with `<` and those from
+ the right with `>`. If combined with `--boundary`, those
+ commits are prefixed with `-`.
++
+For example, if you have this topology:
++
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
+ y---b---b branch B
+ / \ /
+ / .
+ / / \
+ o---x---a---a branch A
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
++
+you would get an output line this:
++
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
+ $ git rev-list --left-right --boundary --pretty=oneline A...B
+
+ >bbbbbbb... 3rd on b
+ >bbbbbbb... 2nd on b
+ <aaaaaaa... 3rd on a
+ <aaaaaaa... 2nd on a
+ -yyyyyyy... 1st on b
+ -xxxxxxx... 1st on a
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
Diff Formatting
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Limit the number of commits output.
+--skip='number'::
+
+ Skip 'number' commits before starting to show the commit output.
+
--since='date', --after='date'::
Show commits more recent than a specific date.
--author='pattern', --committer='pattern'::
Limit the commits output to ones with author/committer
- header lines that match the specified pattern.
+ header lines that match the specified pattern (regular expression).
--grep='pattern'::
Limit the commits output to ones with log message that
- matches the specified pattern.
+ matches the specified pattern (regular expression).
+
+-i, --regexp-ignore-case::
+
+ Match the regexp limiting patterns without regard to letters case.
+
+-E, --extended-regexp::
+
+ Consider the limiting patterns to be extended regular expressions
+ instead of the default basic regular expressions.
--remove-empty::
Stop when a given path disappears from the tree.
+--full-history::
+
+ Show also parts of history irrelevant to current state of a given
+ path. This turns off history simplification, which removed merges
+ which didn't change anything at all at some child. It will still actually
+ simplify away merges that didn't change anything at all into either
+ child.
+
--no-merges::
Do not print commits with more than one parent.
In addition to the '<commit>' listed on the command
line, read them from the standard input.
+--cherry-pick::
+
+ Omit any commit that introduces the same change as
+ another commit on the "other side" when the set of
+ commits are limited with symmetric difference.
++
+For example, if you have two branches, `A` and `B`, a usual way
+to list all commits on only one side of them is with
+`--left-right`, like the example above in the description of
+that option. It however shows the commits that were cherry-picked
+from the other branch (for example, "3rd on b" may be cherry-picked
+from branch A). With this option, such pairs of commits are
+excluded from the output.
+
+-g, --walk-reflogs::
+
+ Instead of walking the commit ancestry chain, walk
+ reflog entries from the most recent one to older ones.
+ When this option is used you cannot specify commits to
+ exclude (that is, '{caret}commit', 'commit1..commit2',
+ nor 'commit1...commit2' notations cannot be used).
++
+With '\--pretty' format other than oneline (for obvious reasons),
+this causes the output to have two extra lines of information
+taken from the reflog. By default, 'commit@\{Nth}' notation is
+used in the output. When the starting commit is specified as
+'commit@{now}', output also uses 'commit@\{timestamp}' notation
+instead. Under '\--pretty=oneline', the commit message is
+prefixed with this information on the same line.
+
+Cannot be combined with '\--reverse'.
+
--merge::
After a failed merge, show refs that touch files having a
generate and test new 'midpoint's until the commit chain is of length
one.
+--bisect-vars::
+
+This calculates the same as `--bisect`, but outputs text ready
+to be eval'ed by the shell. These lines will assign the name of
+the midpoint revision to the variable `bisect_rev`, and the
+expected number of commits to be tested after `bisect_rev` is
+tested to `bisect_nr`, the expected number of commits to be
+tested if `bisect_rev` turns out to be good to `bisect_good`,
+the expected number of commits to be tested if `bisect_rev`
+turns out to be bad to `bisect_bad`, and the number of commits
+we are bisecting right now to `bisect_all`.
+
--
Commit Ordering
parent comes before all of its children, but otherwise things
are still ordered in the commit timestamp order.
+--reverse::
+
+ Output the commits in reverse order.
+ Cannot be combined with '\--walk-reflogs'.
+
Object Traversal
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Only useful with '--objects'; print the object IDs that are not
in packs.
+--no-walk::
+
+ Only show the given revs, but do not traverse their ancestors.
+
+--do-walk::
+
+ Overrides a previous --no-walk.
+
+
+include::pretty-formats.txt[]
+
+
Author
------
Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>